Yep. Tried recrimping the cable. Using a different cable. Using both cables with a different drive. Re-soldered the pins. Drives spin up fine. No complaints on the chipset. But on failure, the chipset simply does not see the drive at all. No recent changes to the empeg prior to this issue (weeks since last hijack upgrade.) I really did exhaust all possibilities before I came to the forums for help. I personally dislike when people ask questions that are already answered and are just too lazy to do the research first, and hate being one of those people even more